Snail massage, high tide in Venice, Iranian embassy bombed in Beruit, a giant suitcase takes over Red Square and more in today’s daily brief.

A hibiscus flower is seen on an ash-covered plant at Mardingding village in Karo district, Indonesia’s north Sumatra province. The volcano continued to emit volcanic ash on Monday, throwing an 8,000m (26,247 ft)-high plume into the atmosphere, as thousands of residents fearful of more eruptions remained in temporary shelters, according to local media. (Roni Bintang/Reuters)

Farmers ride their motorcycle along a road one day after Mount Sinabung erupted in Karo, northern Sumatra island. Two volcanoes erupted in Indonesia on November 18, with one forcing flights to be rerouted and stopping thousands of people who had already been evacuated from returning home. (Kharisma Tarigan/Getty Images)

Migratory birds fly above a man rowing a boat in the waters of river Yamuna during early morning in old Delhi. (Mansi Thapliyal/Reuters)

People walk past a giant Louis Vuitton trunk on Red Square in Moscow. The huge trunk was assembled today in the heart of Moscow near the Kremlin as a part of the upcoming exhibition to mark the famous owners of the iconic trademark, Russian media reported. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/Getty Images)

Tourists walk under heavy rain and wind in a flooded Saint Mark’s Square during high waters on November 19, 2013 in Venice, Italy. Venice will be affected by the high water for the next few days due to the passage of Cyclone Cleopatra that hit the Italian island of Sardinia causing devastating flooding, which has left at least 17 dead. (Marco Secchi/Getty Images)

A couple walks in a flooded Saint Mark’s Square during high waters in Venice, Italy. Venice will be affected by the high water for the next few days due to the passage of Cyclone Cleopatra that hit the Italian island of Sardinia causing devastating flooding, which has left at least 17 dead. (Marco Secchi/Getty Images)

People walk through flooded St. Mark’s Square during a period of seasonal high water in Venice. (Manuel Silvestri/Reuters)

A combination picture shows Vittoria, daughter of Italy’s Member of the European Parliament Licia Ronzulli, growing up as she attended with her mother in various voting sessions at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Pictures taken from September 22, 2010 (Top row L) to November 19, 2013 (Bottom row R). (Vincent Kessler and Jean-Marc Loos/Reuters)

Two-day-old lion cubs Fajr and Sjel are seen at a zoo in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia. The cubs’ mother and father were smuggled into the Gaza Strip from Egypt four years ago to live in a Hamas-run public zoo. It is the first time in years that cubs are born in the Palestinian coastal enclave. (Mohammed Abed/Getty Images)

Members of the “Ranetka” private family club take a medical-cosmetic massage using the Achatina fulica snail, also known as the Giant African land snail, at the club in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Snails’ massage method, which is believed to speed up the regeneration of the skin and to eliminate wrinkles and scars, has become more popular among beauty salons and female health clubs of the city, according to the “Ranetka” club owner Yelena Baranchukova. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

A member of the “Ranetka” private family club takes a medical-cosmetic massage using the Achatina fulica snail, also known as the Giant African land snail, at the club in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Snails’ massage method, which is believed to speed up the regeneration of the skin and to eliminate wrinkles and scars, has become more popular among beauty salons and female health clubs of the city, according to the “Ranetka” club owner Yelena Baranchukova. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

A member of the “Ranetka” private family club takes a medical-cosmetic massage using the Achatina fulica snail, also known as the Giant African land snail, at the club in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Snails’ massage method, which is believed to speed up the regeneration of the skin and to eliminate wrinkles and scars, has become more popular among beauty salons and female health clubs of the city, according to the “Ranetka” club owner Yelena Baranchukova. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

A man is silhouetted as he builds a wooden house in an area destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan, in Palo. Authorities estimate more than 3,900 people were killed when Typhoon Haiyan, one of the largest ever recorded, made landfall in the central Philippines and the sea surged ashore. (John Javellana/Reuters)

A woman covers her nose and mouth as she stopped to look at the body bags containing the remains of some 170 dead collected from the rubble at the “Cemetery of the hills”, one of three mass burial sites where they so far have received one thousand typhoon victims in Tacloban. Philippine President Benigno Aquino blamed the slow response to the ravages of Typhoon Haiyan on the total collapse of local government in the face of the storm’s unprecedented destructive power. (Odd Andersen/Getty Images)

Mary Joy Ducusin reacts as she finds her missing six year old son, British citizen Jairo Ben among the bodies brought to one of three mass burial sites where they so far have received more than one thousand typhoon victims in Tacloban. Mary Joy and her family moved to Tacloban from London only two months ago. Mary Joy lost her son, husband and mother in law as their house on the Tacloban waterfront was swept away by the flood surge. (Odd Andersen/Getty Images)

Filipinos carry boxes with aid from the U.S. relief organization US Aid after an Osprey aircraft of the U.S. Navy landed in a remote village near the eastern Samar town of Guiuan. Ten days after one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded, some residents of remote villages in Eastern Samar province, where the storm made landfall in the central Philippines, said they were still waiting for aid. The Philippines is facing an enormous rebuilding task from Typhoon Haiyan, which killed at least 3,974 people and left 1,186 missing, with many isolated communities yet to receive significant aid despite a massive international relief effort. (Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters)

A Typhoon Haiyan victim carries a box of relief goods from the U.S. government, back to his devastated village in Tacloban, central Philippines. (Erik De Castro/Reuters)

Flames rise from the site of a blast in Bir Hassan neighborhood in the southern Beirut. At least 22 people were killed in a double bomb attack outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut, including an Iranian cultural advisor, government sources told AFP. (Getty Images)

A forensic expert works on a wall of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, that was hit by a double suicide bombing in Bir Hassan neighborhood, in southern Beirut. The attack, that killed at least 23 people, is among the worst there since the assassination of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri. (Getty Images)

Soldiers, policemen and medical personnel gather at the site of explosions near the Iranian embassy (L) in Beirut. Two explosions targeting the Iranian embassy hit the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, security sources said, killing at least seven people and damaging buildings in the embassy compound. (Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)

Newly appointed U.S. ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (C) is seen through a window of a horse-drawn carriage as she arrives at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo to present her credentials to Japan’s Emperor Akihito. Caroline Kennedy, daughter of slain U.S. President John F. Kennedy, arrived in Japan to take up her first high-profile job in public office, making a late start to a political career for which her family is renowned. (Issei Kato/Reuters)

Newly appointed U.S. ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (C) gets out of a horse-drawn carriage as she arrives at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. (Issei Kato/Reuters)

United Arab Emirates’ Air Force Aerobatic Team, Al-Fursan, performs during the Dubai Airshow in Dubai. Emirates Airline’s appetite for aircraft purchases will not cease, the airline’s president Tim Clark told AFP a day after the Dubai-based carrier ordered 200 planes from Boeing and Airbus. (Karim Sahib/Getty Images)

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